We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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